In This Dimension

A Taxpayer Voting for a Democrat

is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders

Catching Pigs

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist regime.

In the midst of his story, he looked[…]

Equality

The problem, of course, is one of equality. Not actual legal equality which has been the law for decades, nor  cultural – very, very few places remain in America in which overt racism exists.

As Larry Elder  writes, and Chris Rock states blacks are more racist than whites. (If you disbelieve this ask why blacks overwhelmingly support Obama, whose stated policies will do more to harm blacks than any other ethnic group.)

No, the problem is perception of equality and the desire, demand, of one group to be more equal than others.

Do blacks want to be equal to whites or do they demand Affirmative[…]

Listen to ‘Talent’?

Out here in the industry (Hollywood), we call those who make their living with their perceived talent (writers, directors, actors, etc.), “Talent,” regardless of how little they may display at any particular time.  (They are extraordinary babies for the most part – trust me.)

You may have noticed a dearth of Hollywood talent onstage thus far in the 2008 campaign season. With the exception of Oprah heralding the Second Coming to her True Believers, talent is ensuring none of the Right can tell them they were, um, wrong about their standard bearer.

Talent, of course, is never wrong - by definition, just ask[…]

Baby Boomers, VA Tech and Responsibility

It is truly amazing how much pure nonsense is in the statements below by “adults” who ought to know better. I have inserted comments where appropriate. The article was on AP this morning.

Report: Va. Tech Could Have Saved Lives
By KRISTEN GELINEAU (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
August 30, 2007 9:50 AM EDT

RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia Tech officials could have saved lives if they had quickly warned the campus that two students had been shot to death and their killer was on the loose, a panel that investigated the attacks said.

Instead, it took administrators more than two hours to get out an e-mail[…]

Unsustainable San Francisco

A couple of years ago I shared a stage with Gavin Newsome, Mayor of San Francisco, and had to listen to him bloviate on his “World’s Most Sustainable City.”

Sorry – but not in this dimension.

He bought computers for everyone, putting out of work those who sell computers, traditionally (at the time) young urban professionals just starting out to marry, raise a family, etc. These jobs pay on the order of $75-100K depending on the level of one’s success. So – he destroyed, what? 30-50 of those jobs? If you count Tech Support, Admin to support the sales teams, etc. Given[…]

If the Iraqi’s want to Hammer the Terrorists…

It seems the Iraqi Ambassador to America has a bias in favor of America’s – and Iraq’s – current policy to hammer the terrorists until they go away – and not to surrender to them. Who’da thunk?

Yes, the Ambassador has a bias and an agenda. But who, exactly, is to say that his bias to keep America involved is due to anything other than his desire for a great future for his country?

And who, exactly, holds an opinion at-odds with his? A bunch of ill-educated MoveOn.org and DemocratUnderground ignoramuses basing their entire spiel on ideology rather than facts, history and the[…]